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[denis280]

Very well explain here.http://www.mysolutions.it/tips-migrating-windows-xp-ssd/

 

[Red Squirrel]

We got SSDs at work (XP), just plugged it in, cloned the HDD to the new SSD and had zero issues. Though I did read after that you should leave a 1MB space at the start for better performance, and we did not do this, but it's still 10x better than it was before. It used to take about 45 minutes to an hour to be up and running and now it takes about 5-10 minutes. (most of that waiting is waiting on the network and not the PC)

 

[Fred B]

Have Xp installed on XM-25V40 and it runs very good from it for several years now , the C/ takes 7GB so there is a lot of free space . Think free space is always good for ssd but special for the XP system disk with lot of small random reads and writes. Think important is the support tool that can use the trim command , with Intel ssd/chipset the toolbox trim works good with XP and no impact on system performance. Think the Samsung tool has big impact on sytem performance with xp . the Sandisk tool seem very nice but i have not tested it .
The Acronis align tool is included with Intel ssd , basically for xp to fix bad aligning .

 

[Cerb]

We got SSDs at work (XP), just plugged it in, cloned the HDD to the new SSD and had zero issues. Though I did read after that you should leave a 1MB space at the start for better performance, and we did not do this, but it's still 10x better than it was before. It used to take about 45 minutes to an hour to be up and running and now it takes about 5-10 minutes. (most of that waiting is waiting on the network and not the PC)

You should align the partition to a 4K boundary. 1MB happens to be what was settled upon (and with 50+GB for a small SSD, what's the loss of 1MB, right?), but 4K is the really important one.

 

[Compman55]

Samsung 830 with AHCI turned on in bios, and drivers installed using F6 during install, then install samsung magician software. Worked great.